Bikes in the Fast Lane: Smelly Motorcycle Boots? Try This! plus 2 more

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• Smelly Motorcycle Boots? Try This!
• Switzerland: 2012 Motorcycle Market Doing Well
• Venezuela: Bikers For Chavez

Smelly Motorcycle Boots? Try This! Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT Those of you who have been in the saddle for hours, know this problem. When you take off those motorcycle boots, you and everyone around you will know they're off. The smell can easily compete with the best of the smelliest cheese made anywhere in the world. And if you need to take your motorcycle out again the next day, and you need to put on those boots.... OMG. If you get stopped, the cops might think you were transporting a ripe dead body. Here's a product made for ski boots. Ski boots, like motorcycle boots, are sturdy and usually calf-length. They hold out the water and cold air, which results in your feet staying nice and dry. So nice and dry that they'll start sweating. The sweat become bacteria, and that smells, and makes the inside of the boots humid. Using the Sidas Drywarmer could eliminate this after a long ride. Insert one in each boot, and the strong UV light kills any bacteria and heats up the boots, drying them out..... Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Switzerland: 2012 Motorcycle Market Doing Well Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:00 AM PDT In the land of cheese, chocolates and banks, Switzerland is doing very well in terms of motorcycles sales. Between January and August 2012, traditionally the best months for motorcycles sales, there was a nice bump upwards in new motorcycles being sold. In total an increase in sales of 6.7% was seen for motorcycles (a total of 20,743 bikes), while scooters saw an increase of 9.3%, totalling 17,635 new scoots. Honda has a big jump, +26%, thanks to several new models, while Yamaha jumped 8%, while European manufactures like KTM (+36%), BMW (7%) and Vespa (+20%) did extremely well. Even Harley-Davidson did well, with an increase of 13%. The manufacturers who did not fare well were Piaggio (the brand -20%), Kawasaki (-7%) and even Triumph did bad, with -9%. Ducati remained stable. The top 20 sales in motorcycles during the time frame were........ ......Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Venezuela: Bikers For Chavez Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:00 PM PDT He's a funny (but dangerous) man, he is, Mr. Chavez. Ruling his country with an iron fist, pretending to be world's best friend, but in reality friends only with the world's despots, he is weird. But he does get a lot of support within Venezuela, a lot of them from the motorcycle world. Which is strange, since bikers like living their own lives, not having someone live it for them. ...

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